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by oldgregg 17y ago
SPOT ON. The AMA is an unconstitutional cartel that punishes the poor. All the changes they are talking about are total bullshit until this issue is addressed. And what about prescriptions? The vast majority of drugs are safer than a bottle
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by oldgregg 17y ago
Actually the fact that LivePerson still charges an arm and leg for their product is a sign it matters.
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by oldgregg 17y ago
I would say we've even lost that. A hundred years ago people might have hung their hat on any of those things you mentioned -- or more often than not, moralistic religion -- but at least they were part of some kind of grand story. Now it fe
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by oldgregg 17y ago
Excellent stuff. Two things come to mind: 1) The loss of God probably plays a large role here. Faith provides a meta-narrative that gives the humdrum of life context and a story arc. Without that you just have a random collection of sensati
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by oldgregg 17y ago
Maybe not the best place to post this... but it depends on how long each request takes. If it's 100ms/avg then a single mongrel thread can do ~10req/sec. Mongrels are single-threaded which is why you usually see 5+ instances. If you are cac
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by oldgregg 17y ago
Indeed, nobody can question the reputation of this mans virility.
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by oldgregg 17y ago
Sad to see him go-- on the upside, he can finally be reunited with his brothers and old family friends like Mary Jo Kopechne and Martha Moxley.
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by oldgregg 17y ago
Incidentally this is a good metric in hiring decisions. Anyone who has the time or interest to complete this survey is probably not the best fit. It would be like if you asked an interviewee what the like to read and they said Cosmo and Red
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by oldgregg 17y ago
Haha, I love how every time someone (usually someone who works for fogcreek no doubt!) posts a story about Fog Creek on HN-- because they always get exposed for their irrelevance. Fog Creek is as relevant to HN as a ".NET Solutions Partner"
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by oldgregg 17y ago
Maybe it isn't the essays themselves but the militant self-promotion from Joel and apparently his employee who posted this story. http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=JacobK I mean no offense, but JacobK doesn't really contribute at all to
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by oldgregg 17y ago
This has nothing to do with liability-- they take on much MORE liability by reviewing than just being an open platform. It has more to do with stopping any applications that threaten revenue in any way-- and while you could have some kind o
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by oldgregg 17y ago
Surely someone who works at facebook/flickr/google/at&t can pinch his access logs...
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by oldgregg 17y ago
11 years may be right, but it's certainly tragic. We're really all chubby little Weigmans-- grasping at anything for validation and meaning. When one thing disappoints us (Wow, I'm a total fail with poor hygiene and no friends...) we just f
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by oldgregg 17y ago
I just started using http://prgmr.com/xen/ -- a (much) lower cost alternative to slice/linode... works great. It's a small company, but I couldn't be happier... the guy who runs it is active here.
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by oldgregg 17y ago
Funny, I wrote this .bash_profile script ( http://gist.github.com/168286 ) just the other day because I wanted... 1) Minimalist colors 2) Stripped down CLEAN prompt 3) For GIT folders it will display the current branch. It was based on this
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by oldgregg 17y ago
NEWS FLASH: Corporation gives non-answer, changes jack shit, and expects sympathy and understanding. Typical.
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by oldgregg 17y ago
I agree. What would prevent something like 20q.net? Compile a database of make/model/year, symptoms, and eventual repairs... People enter their car type then answer questions like "Did the car start? Yes/No/Sometimes?" "Does it make a grind
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by oldgregg 17y ago
If you're asking the question then it's quite possible that no amount will ever be enough.
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by oldgregg 17y ago
Who knows, in the future sharing your DNA may be a standard prerequisite like meeting the folks. Of course, people won't be marrying or having children by then (ala europe) so the government will likely create the "cash for wombs" incentive
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by oldgregg 17y ago
Well the GV app wasn't going to replace the native dialer either. But you might be surprised: 1) The web app could launch a call to a special google that would seemlessly get patched through to the destination number. (wep app notifies go
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by oldgregg 17y ago
Very professional but often very narcissistic and demanding. I had a friend who was tour managing for a major artist-- the amount of logistics he had to juggle was mind-numbing-- only to be fired a couple months ago because he forgot to ord
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by oldgregg 17y ago
Exactly. This is nothing more than a reverse bail out. There wasn't the political will to give the money directly to automakers so they just waited a couple months and repackaged it.
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by oldgregg 17y ago
What if you could view the down votes made by any particular user from their profile page? A little passive accountability... Personally I think the comment voting system is working alright. The overall s/n is more of an issue for me-- it w
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by oldgregg 17y ago
This is a little gimmicky, but restaurant automation is fascinating -- payroll is still a massive expense for most restaurant. For fine dining, forget it. But for fast food I'm surprised more hasn't been done in this space. I know there hav
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by oldgregg 17y ago
Does it support github? Does it support osx? If not then it's probably irrelevant to half the people on here. I might be able to figure this out for myself, but I won't enter my email address on a site with no privacy policy in order to dow
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by oldgregg 17y ago
Right now college still has too much residual cachet. New MBAs realize they just got hosed, but high school juniors still obsess over what school they will get into. It will take some time before you have a significant number of people look
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by oldgregg 17y ago
You want out. That's really understandable. This was a really ambitious project that quite a few companies have failed at... Last year I worked on a startup by for about 6 months and just got fatigued and scrapped it. I know the pain of wor
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by oldgregg 17y ago
Oh the irony of techcrunch criticizing people for using misleading, meaningless, and deceptive language...
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by oldgregg 17y ago
It will be really interesting to see how the partnership with justin.tv develops, could be a partial answer to their high s/n ratio.
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by oldgregg 17y ago
Exactly. And when we weren't playing LoRD on our own BBS we just spent hours rewinding Hackers for THAT ONE SHOT with Angelina Jolie.

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